Word Meanings - BEDASH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon; to bespatter.

• Water butt
  A large, open-headed cask, set up on end, to contain water.
• Water partridge
  The ruddy duck.
• WATERBRAIN
  A disease of sheep; gid.
• WATERRAM
  An hydraulic ram.
• Water-closet
  A privy; especially, a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of water to cleanse it.
• Waterpot
  A vessel for holding or conveying water, or for sprinkling water on cloth, plants, etc.
• WATERCHEVROTAIN
  A large West African chevrotain (Hyæmoschus aquaticus). It has a larger body and shorter legs than the other allied species. Called also water deerlet.
• WATERSOUCHY
  A dish consisting of small fish stewed and served in a little water. [Written also water souchet.] See Zoutch.
• Water dock
  A tall, coarse dock growing in wet places. The American water dock is Rumex orbiculatus, the European is R. Hydrolapathum.
• Water-retted
  of Water-ret
• WATERDEVIL
  The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.
• Water flannel
  A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).
• Water shrew
  Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species (Crossopus fodiens, and C. ciliatus) are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew (Neosorex palu
• WATERFOX
  The carp; -- so called on account of its cunning. Walton.
• Liquidamber
  See Liquidambar.
• Water germander
  A labiate plant (Teucrium Scordium) found in marshy places in Europe.
• Water supply
  A supply of water; specifically, water collected, as in reservoirs, and conveyed, as by pipes, for use in a city, mill, or the like.
• WATERHEN
  Any gallinule. 2. (Zoöl.)
• Otherness
  The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
• Water inch
  Same as Inch of water, under Water.

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